Donations are the lifeblood of a nonprofit organization. They’re like oxygen. Without annual donations, your nonprofit will suffocate and fade out of existence.
When you first start a nonprofit, you can manage your relationship with donors yourself, or a trusty excel spreadsheet. However, it quickly gets confusing and overwhelming.
There comes a point in time when you need to enlist the help of software to take the headache out of the task, and make things so much easier!
That’s why I’ve put together a list of some of the best donor management software out there. I hope it’s helpful, and if you think I left any out, feel free to leave a comment down below!
1. DonorPerfect
DonorPerfect is awesome online fundraising software that you can use to manage your relationship with your donors. All of the software is designed to reduce your workload and get you back to the work that matters.
When you sign up for the software, you’ll get access to a lot of different functionality that lets you manage contacts, track mailings, schedule appointments, organize grant applications, and send personalized communications through newsletters or gift acknowledgments.
You can also use the software to set up events and handle online registration. With DonorPerfect, you can conduct a lot of different types of fundraisers, collect donations, and generate reports on your fundraising efforts.
At the time of writing, the pricing ranges from $54/month to $264/month.
2. Bloomerang
Bloomerang was started to help nonprofits maintain the relationships that they’ve built with their donors. They want to improve your donor retention rate so that you don’t spend all of your time entering new donor information into your database. Instead you’ll be able to grow from your relationships with your existing donors.
When you sign up for the software, you’ll get access to the CRM, online giving forms that you can embed on your website, communication technology, and tools that will help you manage your various social media accounts.
You can use this technology to track which of your donors are most engaged and the individuals that you should pay special attention to. At the time of writing, the pricing ranges from $99/month to $499 per month.
3. BlackBaud
BlackBaud is a seasoned veteran in this space, with over 30 years of experience and multiple software solutions for nonprofits to simplify donor management. They have solutions for small, mid-sized and enterprise level nonprofit orgs.
Depending on which product you go with you can take advantage of their CRM functionality, email marketing, online/offline giving tools, donor retention insights, crowdfunding and sharing tools, or fundraising processing for events, merchandise sales, specific programs, and membership programs.
Blackbaud has a comprehensive suite of products to help any nonprofit raise more money, create a deeper relationship with donors, and track financial progress.
4. Little Green Light
Little Green Light is a donor management system with a lot of functionality that you can use to make it dead simple to raise money, send out communications, and more.
The software allows you to:
- Manage gifts, grants, and events
- Produce mailings
- Accept online and offline donations
- Set up forms on your website get information about your visitors
- Streamline donor information
- And more
The tool also integrates with well-known softwares like MailChimp, Contact, SendGrid, WealthEngine, and others.
Little Green Light costs between $39/month and $89/month, depending on the number of constituents you track.
5. NonprofitEasy
NonprofitEasy’s fundraising suite is powered by Fundly, a nonprofit crowdfunding platform. This includes the Fundly CRM, Fundly Connect, Fundly Pro, and Fundly Enterprise.
You can use the software to conduct peer to peer fundraising campaigns, crowdfunding campaigns, connect with volunteers, manage your donors, create membership programs, communicate with donors, set up events, and more.
Many of NonprofitEasy’s suite of products also come with training or support. This can be especially useful if you have no idea where to begin with donor management.
Pricing for their CRM software ranges from $55/month to $550/month.
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6. Network For Good
Network For Good provides fundraising software and tools for small non-profits. They offer donor management software, peer to peer fundraising software, and donation page software. They also have a lot of nonprofit fundraising resources like webinars, guides, blog posts, and courses.
You can either choose to purchase their entire suite of software or choose from the individual software solutions.
The CRM software helps you target new donors and retain existing donors. You can use the tools to send mass emails, store donor data, create donor segments, and more. You can also use it to generate reports that you can display during board meetings. The P2P Fundraising Software and Donation Page Software lets you accept donations from your donors online.
Pricing for their tools range from $79/month to $170/month.
7. NeonCRM
NeonCRM is cloud-based software for nonprofit organizations that helps you engage your donors, plan events, create membership programs, and track volunteers. There is also a mobile app so that you can manage the tool while you’re away from your computer.
The NeonCRM tool also lets you send communications to your donors, run peer to peer fundraising campaigns, generate reports, and it also connects with QuickBooks! The company also offers web design services and training sessions to help you run a more effective nonprofit organization.
Overall, it’s a pretty robust tool with pricing ranging from $50/month to $200/month.
8. DonorSnap
DonorSnap is a donor management system that helps you store all your donor’s data so that you don’t get overwhelmed with excel spreadsheets!
You can use the software to:
- Send Email Acknowledgement Letters
- Create online forms for event registrations
- Make online donation forms
- Schedule recurring donations and set custom goals
- Access your information through the DonorSnap mobile app
The system also has a lot of typical CRM tools like address book management, reporting abilities, organizational charts, and membership programs.
The pricing ranges from $39/month to $199 per month.
9. Kindful
The last donor management software tool that I’m going to be including in this list is Kindful. The system come with fundraising tools, a CRM, and reporting/analytics.
These various software solutions are all bundled together so you get a lot of functionality.
The donation software lets you set up online donation pages, peer-to-peer fundraising pages, and recurring donation options. The CRM makes it super easy to store all of your donor data in one place, automate or personalize your outreach, and it comes with automated donor updating whenever there’s new activity. Finally, the reporting tools make it easy as pie to look at donor profile analytics and improve your fundraising efforts.
The pricing for Kindful ranges from $100/month to $400/month.
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Conclusion
I hope that this list of tools was helpful! If I left any out, feel free to leave a comment down below. I think that tools are a super important part of any successful fundraising strategy.
I know that this is a lot of information. Your head might be spinning! Don’t worry. I’ve put together a complete guide on nonprofit fundraising to make the process as step-by-step as possible. You can check out the blog post here.
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